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Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu hopes for better 2015

Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu says the club have "enthusiasm and trust" in Luis Enrique.

Bartomeu, speaking on Thursday before a Christmas lunch with the media, said they were confident the Barca coach will deliver on the club's sporting project in a "transcendent" year for the Catalan side

"2015 is a year that will be very important for the club -- it can be transcendent because there are many things to be decided," he said in his welcome speech. "We have enthusiasm and trust in Luis Enrique to pull forward the club's sporting project.

"There are some fantastic months of excitement ahead, and we have confidence in him because he deserves it."

Bartomeu said he wants to leave behind a "difficult" 2014.

"It has been a complex year in which many things have happened that we have fought very openly, we have given as much information as we could," he said in reference to the case concerning the FIFA transfer ban, as well as those involving the signing of Neymar and former president Joan Laporta. "Many of these issues are still open. We will continue fighting."

Addressing the media, he said: "I appreciate what you have said -- we will not always agree but your thoughts are always welcome. I want to thank you for an event that occurred and that was the second time it happened at this club: the [Camp Nou] referendum in April. That campaign and that referendum were well covered, thinking about the good of the club."